Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University crew is rowing about 400 strokes on stationary seats every day. After this they use the chest weights or dumb-bells, and then take the costomary run up North Avenue. They are at present rowing as follows...
...speak, of course, for myself alone; and as Blake got his degree, the boat club had probably less to do with my catastrophe than I flattered myself with imagining. In my evenings it was my delight to go down to the gymnasium and see Blake put up the dumb-bell, and to listen to his discourses upon matters of muscular interest. Somehow or other he always seemed to know more about these things than any of us; and he was inspired by a strenuous missionary spirit, persuasive enough almost to make an oarsman out of a humpback, or a sprint...
Cornell has a class in dumb bells and club swinging, and at the winter meeting of the athletic association expects to witness an exhibition, accompanied by the festive sounds of the piano. This is certainly a novelty outside of a female seminary...
...years, be limited to rowing and during a few months the work at the chest weights and running; but throughout the year each man will be expected to exercise that part of his body or those muscles which are weakest. If a man is not strong in the arms dumb bell work is prescribed, or if he is weak in the back, certain movements in bending every day will, it is hoped, considerably strengthen it by the end of the year...
...very considerable; even a Committee on Athletics would grant this. Aside from the influence that success or defeat has in the outer world-aside even from the honor of the college involved in these intercollegiate contests, the physical welfare of the students is vitally bound up in them. Dumb bells and pulleys are all very well in their way, but they can not- and do not- enter into the life of our athletics. The students, appreciating as they do the importance of the question, are strongly opposed to change, believing, and we think rightly, that all defects will gradually...